Monsanto, Dow, DuPont Launch Website To Educate Public On GMOs

A group of biotech seed companies have launched an online forum to rebuff disapproval of genetically modified foods across the world. Activists and consumer groups are skeptical, saying the industry has a ‘track record of being anything but transparent’.

The website is said to be partly backed by the biotech US giant Monsanto, DuPont and Dow AgroSciences, according to Reuters.

Founders of www.GMOAnswers.com say the website was created “to do a better job answering your questions — no matter what they are — about GMOs.” Its launch is part of the biotech industry’s campaign to respond to concerns for GMO food labeling and tighter regulation in the US.

“This… is an effort to increase the dialogue. That is all we want,” Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Pioneer told Reuters. “Dialogue is good. Over time I think we’ll come to a common understanding.”

Kauai recently heard public comment
on bill 2491
on restricting GMO testing and requiring public disclosure
as well as safety zones
all those supporting the GMO companies postion against the bill
were employees of the companies and
had multigenerational connections to industrial agroculture
about which
the average schmo could care less what’s in a Big Mac
and the astute know the fix is in